Motivational Quotes

Love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

10.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

12.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

13.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

14.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

15.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

16.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

17.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

18.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

19.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

22.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

23.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

24.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

25.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

28.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

30.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

31.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

35.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

36.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

37.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

38.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

39.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

40.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

41.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

42.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

43.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

46.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

47.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

48.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

49.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

50.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott